Show Distributing Our GoodsIn Goods Good In the primitive days of America each community was The settlers caught their own fish shot game in m the forests and grow their corn and vegetables and had livestock on their 0 own n land There and local mills were ere stores an nn but there was 1 as rarely ral any occasion for r transporting articles of food or com com- commerce commerce merce long distances Most of the th i settlers lived lined on the seaboard and an there was a small volume of trade trad with and Ind other European i countries It puzzles one nowadays to figure out how people lived in such Isolation But the puzzle isn't anything any any- anything thing compared to the tangle of the present day that involves the distrI- distrI distrIbutIOn distribution of merchandise machInery foods and all sorts of things Th The present census w will l gather interest interest- interesting interesting Ing statistics about goods that are ar distributed to the ultimate consumer consumer consumer er In the days dars when Washington was President it was considered a m leant achievement to take a census of the people but the job was done one so o thoroughly that each individual name became part of the public re records and the most of these records hav have ha been preserved in m historical docu- docu documents documents docu ments that have hate been punted printed by pub pub- public pubic lic he e expense nse or by historical associations associations associations Nowadays days in a Nation of p people ople we we e have to be con content content content tent with the grand totals Bute But we e weare weare eare are collecting information about nearly every ase please of human life le l e |